Fairy Lights
by Rafacasari
With Fairy Lights, hanging lights are crafted in combinations, dyed by right-clicking, and placed on the ground or in the air across many light variants.
What it does
Hanging lights in this mod can be linked into strings and recolored with dye. Light variants include fairy, heart, moon and sparkle lights, paper and orb lanterns, flower and candle lanterns, oil and snowflake lights, icicle and meteor lights, and a spooky set with spider, ghost, jack o'lantern, skull and witch lights. Glowstone lights twinkle. The mod adds a Sable and Create Aeronautics integration and uses the Flywheel renderer, which the author describes as improving frame rates. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge for 1.21.1, and the mod runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it.
The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source. The project has a public issue tracker. The first release was published on 2026-05-08 and the latest update on 2026-10-03, with version 1.3.1 as the latest file on both loaders. Lights placed on the ground can be rotated in 16 steps and their hitboxes render correctly after the author's fixes.
Key features
Light variants
Hanging and ground lights come in many styles, from paper and orb lanterns to spooky spider and jack o'lantern designs.
Combination crafting
Lights are crafted in horizontal patterns with iron ingots, string and sticks, and combination recipes set the layout left-right or top-down.
Dye coloring
Hanging lights and ground lights can be recolored by right-clicking them with dye, and some recipes take red dye as an ingredient.
Flywheel rendering
The renderer uses Flywheel, and the author reports a large gain in frame rate from the optimization pass.
Ground placement
Lights placed on the ground support 16-step yaw rotation, so they can be aligned to any surface.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Builders who decorate interiors, exteriors or themed areas and want many light styles in one mod. Server owners running Sable or Create Aeronautics will find the integration relevant.
How it compares
More Lighting Variants is open source under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, runs client and server on Fabric and NeoForge, and targets 1.21.9 – 1.21.11, so it covers newer versions than Fairy Lights. Hanging Heads is open source under the MIT License, NeoForge only, for 1.21.1, with the same environment. Flat Lighting Blocks is Fabric only for 1.21.1, All rights reserved and not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairy Lights | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-03 |
| More Lighting Variants | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.9 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-01-12 |
| Hanging Heads | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-28 |
| Flat Lighting Blocks | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-10-13 |
Questions
Which loaders does Fairy Lights support?
Does the server need Fairy Lights?
How are hanging lights colored?
In the catalog
Fairy Lights is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Fairy Lights adds decorative hanging lights that can have any combination of light variants of any dye color. In order to craft hanging lights you first must craft the lights. Lights come in many variants, fairy light, heart light, moon light, star light, paper lantern, orb lantern, flower light, candle lantern, oil…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/fairylights
- Owner
- Rafacasari
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-03
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15